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Recent stories about sports
![Events promote women and girls to throw TDs or drop in A skater carves at a skate park.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/08/27/womens-sports-3193.jpg)
Events promote women and girls to throw TDs or drop in
Two events that focus on encouraging women and girls to get involved in sports are set to close out the summer.
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![A moment in history: July 10, 1971 A newspaper clipping with a headline that reads, "Stadium turf damage probed"](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/07/10/a-moment-in-history-july-10.jpg)
A moment in history: July 10, 1971
On this day in 1971, the City of Edmonton was investigating the torn-up turf at Clarke Stadium.
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![What the puck is Hockeyology? Two people stand behind a podium with three banners behind them.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/07/03/hockeyology-2911-1.jpg)
What the puck is Hockeyology?
Edmonton Edge Fund-recipient ZerOne is opening a new centre for hockey performance and sports medicine at West Edmonton Mall that includes something called Hockeyology.
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![Entrepreneurs work to build Edmonton's padel community A person holding a racquet watches a ball while playing on an indoor court.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/06/26/padel-zone-action.jpg)
Entrepreneurs work to build Edmonton's padel community
When Daniel Portilla moved from Ecuador to Edmonton earlier this year, he discovered the city lacked a padel club and decided to change that.
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![Edmonton food legend hits another kind of green A person holding a golf cub poses in a restaurant in golf attire.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/04/11/onion-club-2675.jpg)
Edmonton food legend hits another kind of green
Siu To, the man credited with bringing the iconic green onion cake to Edmonton in 1980, and known to many as the Green Onion Cake Man, has invented his own golf club out of sheer love for the sport.
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![Reed Clarke charts new course for rebranded Sport Edmonton Three people gathered in a bar hold up a Sport Edmonton t-shirt and an Edmonton Oilers jersey for a player called Skinner.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2024/04/10/sport-edmonton-2695.jpg)
Reed Clarke charts new course for rebranded Sport Edmonton
Sport Edmonton, the rebranded version of the city-funded Edmonton Sports Council, is working to create community legacies from major sporting events that come to town, and to empower grassroots play.
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![A moment in history: Dec. 13, 1961 A newspaper clipping of a photograph of three Golden Bears hockey players, one hitting an effigy representing the opposing team's manager.](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2023/12/11/history-golden-bears.jpg)
A moment in history: Dec. 13, 1961
On this day in 1961, the University of Alberta's Golden Bears hockey team was getting pumped for its game against the Edmonton Oil Kings.
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![A moment in history: Oct. 25, 1954 A newspaper clipping of a photo montage of three scenes from a football game under the headline "Jackie Parker Leads Eskimos To Thrilling Win"](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2023/10/25/history-football.jpg)
A moment in history: Oct. 25, 1954
On this day 69 years ago, Edmonton's professional football team had notched another win on its way to its first Grey Cup victory.
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![A moment in history: June 14, 1934 A newspaper clipping of an ad for a baseball game between the House of David and Webb King's Royals, beside a story headlined "Big Spruce Grove Pitcher May Work in Game Saturday Against House of David"](https://taprootyeg.blob.core.windows.net/photos/2023/06/13/history-baseball.jpg)
A moment in history: June 14, 1934
On this day 89 years ago, the Edmonton Senior Amateur Baseball League was set to host the famous House of David team.
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